Expressions denoting parts of the whole in Russian

Affiliation:
Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Address: Moscow, 127051, Russian Federation; Madrid, 28660, Spain

Journal name

Voprosy Jazykoznanija

Edition

Issue 2

Pages

29-52

Abstract

The paper addresses a variety of expressions that quantitatively characterize an object or a situation by stating that this object or situation forms a certain part of another object or situation. Some of these expressions are polovina ‘half’, tret’ ‘a third’, četvert’ ‘a fourth’, procent ‘per cent’, bol’šinstvo ‘majority’, men’šinstvo ‘minority’, napolovinu ‘by half’, vdvoe ‘twice’, na N procentov ‘by N per cent’, v bol’šinstve (svoem) ‘for the most part’, etc. I am interested in how the meaning of these expressions interacts with meanings of other words in the sentence. In other words, what is the Whole and what is the Part in each case? The issue is investigated in terms of valencies and their instantiations.

Keywords

actant, diathesis change, partials, part / whole, valency

Received

04.07.2018

Publication date

04.07.2018

Number of characters

697

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GOST	Boguslavsky I. Expressions denoting parts of the whole in Russian // Voprosy Jazykoznanija – 2018. – Issue 2 C. 29-52 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/vopjaz/s0373658x0003717-7-1-en (circulation date: 20.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S0373658X0003717-7
MLA	Boguslavsky, Igor "Expressions denoting parts of the whole in Russian." Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2 (2018):29-52. DOI: 10.31857/S0373658X0003717-7
APA	Boguslavsky I. (2018). Expressions denoting parts of the whole in Russian. Voprosy Jazykoznanija (2), pp.29-52 DOI: 10.31857/S0373658X0003717-7

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